{"quotes":[{"text":"My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what we learn from these systems helps us to understand possible pathways leading to the origin of life. Our basic design for a synthetic cell involves the encapsulation of a spontaneously replicating nucleic acid, which acts as the genetic material, within a spontaneously replicating membrane vesicle, which provides spatial localization. We are using chemical synthesis to make nucleic acids with modified nucleobases and sugar-phosphate backbones.","author":"Jack W. Szostak","tags":["artificial-life","biology","chemistry","early-earth","early-life","first-life","laboratory","nobel-laureate","origin-of-life","science","synthetic-life"],"id":21137,"author_id":"Jack+W.+Szostak"},{"text":"Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... When we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.","author":"Denton Cooley","tags":["achievement","artificial-heart","cardiovascular-surgery","doctor","firsts","health-care","heart-transplant","laboratory","medicine","operating-room","price","research","science","surgery","united-states"],"id":88292,"author_id":"Denton+Cooley"},{"text":"I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.","author":"Kyoko M.","tags":["dragons","humor","kamala-anjali","laboratory","opening-line-of-the-novel","post-doc","research","researchers","science-fiction","scientists"],"id":101559,"author_id":"Kyoko+M."},{"text":"Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.","author":"J. Tuzo Wilson","tags":["admiration","elegance","geology","lab","laboratory","life","nature","plate-tectonics","scenery","science","scientific-theories","scientist","theories","wonder","woods"],"id":133231,"author_id":"J.+Tuzo+Wilson"},{"text":"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.","author":"Antoine Lavoisier","tags":["chemical","laboratory "],"id":143016,"author_id":"Antoine+Lavoisier"},{"text":"I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no doubt that, if he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it the one object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect. So great and uncontrollable was his passion for work.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["amusement","doubt","edison","existence","experiment","intelligence","laboratory","paris","passion","thomas-edison","work"],"id":148033,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a potato-cellar, and, if I had not seen the worktable with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.(Wilhelm Ostwald on seeing the Curie's laboratory facilities.).","author":"Wilhelm","tags":["chemistry","curie","discovery","joke","laboratory","marie-curie","radium","science"],"id":162023,"author_id":"Wilhelm"},{"text":"Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.","author":"Henry Edward Armstrong","tags":["humor","hypotheses","laboratory","professors","science","teaching"],"id":172772,"author_id":"Henry+Edward+Armstrong"},{"text":"How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar... One evening I was so interested in my laboratory that I forgot about my supper till quite late, and then rushed off for a meal without stopping to wash my hands. I sat down, broke a piece of bread, and put it to my lips. It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not ask why it was so, probably because I thought it was some cake or sweetmeat. I rinsed my mouth with water, and dried my moustache with my napkin, when, to my surprise the napkin tasted sweeter than the bread. Then I was puzzled. I again raised my goblet, and, as fortune would have it, applied my mouth where my fingers had touched it before. The water seemed syrup. It flashed on me that I was the cause of the singular universal sweetness, and I accordingly tasted the end of my thumb, and found it surpassed any confectionery I had ever eaten. I saw the whole thing at once. I had discovered some coal tar substance which out-sugared sugar. I dropped my dinner, and ran back to the laboratory. There, in my excitement, I tasted the contents of every beaker and evaporating dish on the table.","author":"Constantin Fahlberg","tags":["accident","discovery","interview","laboratory","saccharin","science","story"],"id":181092,"author_id":"Constantin+Fahlberg"},{"text":"A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.","author":"P.M.S. Blackett","tags":["lab","laboratory","outstanding","progress","science","scientists","success","work"],"id":185092,"author_id":"P.M.S.+Blackett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}